The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

I won the speech competition in class, and I always say this was my first 'spoken word performance.' It was the first time I got on stage and recited something. I fell in love with the stage at the age of 12.

You have to win and especially, as I have, you have to win a trophy for the first time.

The first time you went to eBay, you probably didn't do a transaction.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.